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Hey everyone I’m AnxiousReefer and this will be my build/journal thread. Before I dive into everything a little background information about me.
I’ve been in the reefing hobby for about a year now. It all started with a conversation I was having with my fiancé about how cool it would be to have a fish tank with a shark in it. As we looked into everything we needed to set up such tank we then realized we knew absolutely nothing about having a fish tank let alone keeping a shark. So what we decided to do was start with a beginner tank. The choice we made was to get the RedSea Reefer 170 for our very first tank. We bought it at our lfs Fragbox. The owner March was very helpful in helping us with basically a starter kit for our tank. He advised us on return pump, wavemakers, light, skimmer.
Fast forward a few months I had a really bad cyano outbreak and sort of gave up the hobby for few months. After trial and error I finally solved my cyano outbreak with GFO
For lighting March advised me to get Ai Prime HD as these lights would be good for my size tank to grow coral.
I’m currently running David Saxby’s setting.
The coral that got my addiction going is the Utter Chaos Zoa. As soon as I saw this at my lfs I knew I had to have it. The way it just pop under the light is what drew me. Once I got it home and into my tank.Only few days in the tank it started growing new heads currently there are two new ones growing. Once I saw that and felt the success I had to get more.
When I bought the Utter Chaos I also bought Jason Fox Paranoid Favia.I’m not sure if it was already encrusting when I bought it but the right side of the frag is starting to encrust.
Another eye popper for me was the Ultra Rainbow Acan Lord. The colour is still there but the skeleton is showing I know that can’t be good. I made the mistake of gluing it right away into rock. Without finding out the best spot for it. All I did was turn the rock the opposite way so the Acan is further away from the light the original position I had it.
If anyone could offer some expertise as to why it is showing its skeleton and what I can do to fix it is greatly appreciated.
My final purchase of the day was a Red Montipora Cap. It’s my first sps in the tank I chose this one because I was told they are a good beginner sps to start with and that they are hardy. It was my first coral that I glued and it didn’t come on a plug so I got some glue on the coral. I’m hoping it will grow over it.
I Bought a few more yesterday I kind of went overboard told the fiancé I only spent 10$ With the new purchases I think I’m going to have a bit more patience and leave them where they are for few days then move it to a position I would like them to be and see if they like it or not.
Seduction Zoa
Super Saiyan Zoa
Ultra Orange Yuma Mushroom
Red and Green War Coral
Acan Lord
At first I didn’t want to get it because it didn’t have that eye popping look. But then I saw that it was a red Acan and two heads where green so I felt like I was getting a deal lol. Also I wanted another Acan lord to see if my ultra acan lord would open up
Can someone also ID this Acan lord for me.
There is one more frag that I bought it may be a Razzle Dazzle Zoa frag. But it hasn’t opened up yet so I’m not sure
Before I made this thread I had 2xOcellaris Clownfish.But a week ago I noticed the bigger one that I had wasn’t acting normal. First I noticed he was hiding in a cave and wouldn’t move from there. Then few days ago he moved out of the cave and was just swimming in one spot. This didn’t seem like normal behaviour so I started watching YouTube videos and going on google to find answers. I also went to my lfs and asked them what it may have been. They said that either it’s stressed out by an aggressive fish in the tank,flukes, or ich. So I found out through my searches that I can do a freshwater dip. I took the clown that I suspected was ill and performed the FW dip. I didn’t have a air stone for aeration so I used a spare return pump that I normally use for mixing salt water. It push the clown around very aggressively and I saw that it wasn’t moving so I stopped the FW dip after 3min. I removed the clown and placed him in this hospital box that I bought.The clown was still breathing heavily and I didn’t see any opaque white spots after the dip. Unfortunately after I placed the aggressive clownfish with the bigger one did not make it.
The other Ocellaris Clownfish started becoming very aggressive and I notice it many times darting and attack my 2xGalaxy Clarkii Clownfish I finally caught him by removing all my rocks and this having to do redue my aquascape.
Next up is my fiancé’s favourite in the tank Green Mandarin
Another trip to one of lfs lead me to get a Red Ruby Dragonet. I’ve read that having two dragonets in such a small tank gives a very small percentage at survival only if there’s a refugium that has copepods. Unfortunately I couldn’t set one up as my sump has no space for one. So I opted for the other option to teach the dragonets to eat frozen. I was successful thus I am hopeful they will survive.
I will reuse this picture to introduce my Yellow Clown Goby because right now the lights are too blue to get a decent picture.
My final fish that I have in my tank is Six Line Wrasse. I love the colour it has almost like a rainbow.
I went a bit crazy on the inverts because at the time I didn’t have any coral and I thought it would help with my cyano outbreak. There’s 1xTurbo Snail, 2xTrochus Snail, 5xNassarius Snail(I enjoy watching them pop out of the sand when I’m feeding), 5xScarlet hermit Crab, 1xStrawberry Conch, 20xdwarf hermit crabs(Red,Blue,Black)
As you can see the picture quality isn’t that great right now so I’ll end this log here and continue with better lighting. Enjoy
I’ve been in the reefing hobby for about a year now. It all started with a conversation I was having with my fiancé about how cool it would be to have a fish tank with a shark in it. As we looked into everything we needed to set up such tank we then realized we knew absolutely nothing about having a fish tank let alone keeping a shark. So what we decided to do was start with a beginner tank. The choice we made was to get the RedSea Reefer 170 for our very first tank. We bought it at our lfs Fragbox. The owner March was very helpful in helping us with basically a starter kit for our tank. He advised us on return pump, wavemakers, light, skimmer.
Fast forward a few months I had a really bad cyano outbreak and sort of gave up the hobby for few months. After trial and error I finally solved my cyano outbreak with GFO
For lighting March advised me to get Ai Prime HD as these lights would be good for my size tank to grow coral.
I’m currently running David Saxby’s setting.
The coral that got my addiction going is the Utter Chaos Zoa. As soon as I saw this at my lfs I knew I had to have it. The way it just pop under the light is what drew me. Once I got it home and into my tank.Only few days in the tank it started growing new heads currently there are two new ones growing. Once I saw that and felt the success I had to get more.
When I bought the Utter Chaos I also bought Jason Fox Paranoid Favia.I’m not sure if it was already encrusting when I bought it but the right side of the frag is starting to encrust.
Another eye popper for me was the Ultra Rainbow Acan Lord. The colour is still there but the skeleton is showing I know that can’t be good. I made the mistake of gluing it right away into rock. Without finding out the best spot for it. All I did was turn the rock the opposite way so the Acan is further away from the light the original position I had it.
If anyone could offer some expertise as to why it is showing its skeleton and what I can do to fix it is greatly appreciated.
My final purchase of the day was a Red Montipora Cap. It’s my first sps in the tank I chose this one because I was told they are a good beginner sps to start with and that they are hardy. It was my first coral that I glued and it didn’t come on a plug so I got some glue on the coral. I’m hoping it will grow over it.
I Bought a few more yesterday I kind of went overboard told the fiancé I only spent 10$ With the new purchases I think I’m going to have a bit more patience and leave them where they are for few days then move it to a position I would like them to be and see if they like it or not.
Seduction Zoa
Super Saiyan Zoa
Ultra Orange Yuma Mushroom
Red and Green War Coral
Acan Lord
At first I didn’t want to get it because it didn’t have that eye popping look. But then I saw that it was a red Acan and two heads where green so I felt like I was getting a deal lol. Also I wanted another Acan lord to see if my ultra acan lord would open up
Can someone also ID this Acan lord for me.
There is one more frag that I bought it may be a Razzle Dazzle Zoa frag. But it hasn’t opened up yet so I’m not sure
Before I made this thread I had 2xOcellaris Clownfish.But a week ago I noticed the bigger one that I had wasn’t acting normal. First I noticed he was hiding in a cave and wouldn’t move from there. Then few days ago he moved out of the cave and was just swimming in one spot. This didn’t seem like normal behaviour so I started watching YouTube videos and going on google to find answers. I also went to my lfs and asked them what it may have been. They said that either it’s stressed out by an aggressive fish in the tank,flukes, or ich. So I found out through my searches that I can do a freshwater dip. I took the clown that I suspected was ill and performed the FW dip. I didn’t have a air stone for aeration so I used a spare return pump that I normally use for mixing salt water. It push the clown around very aggressively and I saw that it wasn’t moving so I stopped the FW dip after 3min. I removed the clown and placed him in this hospital box that I bought.The clown was still breathing heavily and I didn’t see any opaque white spots after the dip. Unfortunately after I placed the aggressive clownfish with the bigger one did not make it.
The other Ocellaris Clownfish started becoming very aggressive and I notice it many times darting and attack my 2xGalaxy Clarkii Clownfish I finally caught him by removing all my rocks and this having to do redue my aquascape.
Next up is my fiancé’s favourite in the tank Green Mandarin
Another trip to one of lfs lead me to get a Red Ruby Dragonet. I’ve read that having two dragonets in such a small tank gives a very small percentage at survival only if there’s a refugium that has copepods. Unfortunately I couldn’t set one up as my sump has no space for one. So I opted for the other option to teach the dragonets to eat frozen. I was successful thus I am hopeful they will survive.
I will reuse this picture to introduce my Yellow Clown Goby because right now the lights are too blue to get a decent picture.
My final fish that I have in my tank is Six Line Wrasse. I love the colour it has almost like a rainbow.
I went a bit crazy on the inverts because at the time I didn’t have any coral and I thought it would help with my cyano outbreak. There’s 1xTurbo Snail, 2xTrochus Snail, 5xNassarius Snail(I enjoy watching them pop out of the sand when I’m feeding), 5xScarlet hermit Crab, 1xStrawberry Conch, 20xdwarf hermit crabs(Red,Blue,Black)
As you can see the picture quality isn’t that great right now so I’ll end this log here and continue with better lighting. Enjoy
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